Mystery and public speculation have surrounded the Farrey family since it disappeared on Nov. 15.

Not too much is known about Jeffrey Farrey publicly, other than he joined the U.S. Army in 2010 and is a fan of football, rock music and movies such as Transformers and Big Daddy -- things most 22-year-olds enjoy.

Meanwhile, his wife, Jenna Farrey, is an open book with a life played out over multiple social media profiles where the 20-year-old posts daily status updates, selfies and commonly uses explicit language.

The couple was arrested last week on two separate charges in a Michigan motel, after missing for several days. Three days after they were found, the body of an infant, presumed by police to be the couple's 5-month-old son, Jackson Farrey, was found in a New Mexico desert on Wednesday. Their other son, 19-month-old Blake Farrey, is with Child Protective Services.

Jeffrey Farrey was booked into the El Paso County Jail on suspicion of injury to a child by omission. His bond is set at $1.5 million.

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Jenna Farrey is scheduled to be brought back to El Paso after she allegedly broke the terms of her probation stemming from a 2012 child endangerment case involving Blake.

The circumstances surrounding the Farrey's disappearance and the body found in the desert are still incomplete. But their former classmates, neighbors and online profiles offer a glimpse at who they are.

The site where 5-month-old Jackson Farrey was found in Orogrande, New Mexico. (Mark Lambie / El Paso Times)

Mom

"Let me just start by saying, I'm a very colorful individual to say the least. I have a lot of personality, more than most," was Jenna Farrey's self-introduction to the world on YouTube about three months ago.

Most of the information on Jenna Farrey is gathered from social media, including three Facebook profiles, four Instagram accounts, three dating-profile pages, two YouTube channels and one Twitter handle, that are all under the names Jenna Farrey, Jenna Hendricks or username monster2264 and have her picture.

She has a passion for fast cars and has several photos of a black and white Scion and a black Dodge Charger. One YouTube video is about her disdain for cars in El Paso.

The mother of two graduated in 2011 from Saint Charles East High School in Saint Charles, Ill. Back then she was known as Jenna Johnson.

One former classmate, who wished not to be named, said she enjoyed talking to Jenna Farrey when they were in class, but once they left class it was a different story.

"She has always been kind of unstable and told people some interesting stories about herself," the classmate said.

"She definitely tries to get attention when she is in a crowd."

"With all the stories she used to tell people, it was hard to keep track of what was real and what was not."

The way Jenna Farrey talks in her YouTube videos, with plenty of vulgar words and anger, was how she acted in high school, according to the classmate.

"I thought once she got out of high school she would grow out of that," the classmate said. "She was always fighting. Very disturbed and depressed. I guess it never left her."

Other classmates have commented on news stories about the Farrey family. Her family could not be reached for comment.

According to a Facebook post from this past February, Jenna Farrey met Jeffrey Farrey on Valentine's Day, 2011.

At some point, Jenna Farrey came to El Paso to be with Jeffrey Farrey. They got married in September 2011, right before he deployed for Afghanistan, according to El Paso County marriage records.

While Jeffrey Farrey was gone, someone by the name of Jenna Farrey posted on a Yahoo.com question and answer board, asking what the effects of smoking would be on her baby.

Jenna Farrey gave birth to Blake Farrey in late-April 2012.

Nearly two months later, Jenna Farrey would be pulled over for driving 97 mph on Loop 375. According to a police affidavit, Jenna Farrey told the officer that she was speeding because she left her son, Blake, at home alone.

The officer followed her home and conducted a welfare check and found the apartment "disheveled," the affidavit said.

Jenna Farrey told the officer, "she didn't know" why she didn't bring the baby with her in a car seat.

The affidavit said it was estimated that Blake was left alone for 40 minutes.

On July 24, 2012, Jenna Farrey was arrested after two witnesses reported more instances of child abandonment.

When police met with Jenna Farrey, she admitted to leaving her son alone for about seven and half hours on July 15, 2012, while she took a road trip to Elephant Butte Lake. She also said she left him alone once for five to six hours while she went to Cielo Vista Mall and again on July 22, 2012, so she could go to the movies.

Once again, police visited her home.

"Detectives observed the child's play pen to have feces on the mattress and sheets," an affidavit said. "The defendant stated she often left the child unattended because he usually slept up to five-six hours after having a bottle."

In January, Jenna Farrey plead guilty to abandoning and endangering a child with intent to return. She received five years of community supervision, or probation.

At the time, she was pregnant again.

In June, the Farrey family went Saint Charles, Ill., and Jackson Jeffrey Patrick Farrey was born on June 10, Jenna Farrey's 20th birthday.

Dad

There is less information about Jeffrey Farrey on the Internet. He grew up in a suburb of Chicago and enlisted in the Army in 2010.

His step-sister Sarah Rash said she had no comment and asked that the El Paso Times not contact her again.

He was sent to Fort Benning, Ga., for basic and individual training, Fort Bliss officials said.

Jeffrey Farrey graduated as an Infantryman in October 2010. In February, right after he met Jenna, he was assigned to Fort Bliss with the 1st Battalion, 41st Infantry Regiment, Third Brigade Combat Team, 1st Armored Division.

Soon after he was married in September, 2011, he was deployed with his unit to eastern Afghanistan for 11 months and missed Blake Farrey's birth.

Jeffrey Farrey had no idea that his wife was arrested for child abandonment, his lawyer Joe Spencer told the El Paso Times.

"He had no idea of Jenna's actions while he was in Afghanistan," Spencer said. "There was no physical evidence on the body of any bruising."

Fort Bliss said Jeffrey Farrey returned from Afghanistan in July 2012, and had earned the Army Commendation Medal, the National Defense Service Medal, the Afghan Campaign Medal with Campaign Star, the Global War on Terrorism Service Medal, the Army Service Ribbon, the NATO Medal, and the Combat Infantryman's Badge.

He attended two training exercises in August and October of this year and was scheduled to return to Afghanistan this winter, Fort Bliss officials said.

Disappearance

Jenna Farrey's last Instagram picture of Jackson Farrey was on Nov. 6 and according to her Twitter account, she went to her first bar on Nov. 12 and saw someone get punched.

On Nov. 15, the El Paso Police Department announced that the four-member family was missing after Jeffrey Farrey did not show up to work at Fort Bliss.

That same night the family checked into the Lakeside Motor Inn in Gladstone, Mich., a motel employee confirmed.

They were found on Nov. 17 in the Eagle's Nest Motel in Escanaba, Mich. and taken into custody.

Jeffrey Farrey was arrested on an AWOL charge, the Michigan Daily Press reported and court records showed that an arrest warrant was issued for Jenna Farrey because she violated her probation by leaving El Paso County and failing to follow her curfew.

Their 19-month-old son Blake was placed into Michigan's Child Protective Services and 5-month-old Jackson was still missing.

Detectives with the police department's Crimes Against Persons unit began to search the family's home on the 7300 block of Cerro Negro on Tuesday. Up until that day, not too many residents on the street knew who the Farrey family was.

Alicia Landreos, 55, told the El Paso Times that she had never seen them, only recognized the black and white Scion, which was towed by police.

"I don't think they have been living there very long," Landeros said. "At least I never really noticed them."

Police announced on Wednesday that they believed the remains of Jackson Farrey had been found in the desert outside of Orogrande, N.M., which is near a military training site.

The remains were taken to the University of New Mexico Office of the Medical Investigator in Albuquerque. As of Friday, they had not been identified.

Jeffrey Farrey was extradited by Fort Bliss to El Paso on Wednesday and turned over to police. He is booked into El Paso County Jail on suspicion of injury to a child by omission and his bond is set at $1.5 million.

His lawyer, Joe Spencer, said Jeffrey Farrey is a victim too.

"He is very distraught," Spencer said. "He's very emotional over the loss of his child."

Jenna Farrey is scheduled to be extradited to El Paso. Her lawyer, Dolph Quijano, said he will speak to her once she is brought back from Michigan.

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